Gliders > Slope Soaring
16th + 17th March event
Happy Days:
Any wind Fredric? we need wind!
Fred:
Not much, but picking up :)
Jacket is off! :) flying the explorer :)
andrew wallace:
very quiet on here tonight :lol:
keith what happened today
Happy Days:
Hey Andy,
Well the winds were not very obliging today. They were light to non existent, with a tendency to blow across the ridge rather than onto it.
This fact was pointed out to M. Marie (Fred) but being the cleaver little :shock: , ( Did I say little… :roll: ) sod that he is, rather than change to a different slope, he insisted we all stay on the west slope and fly as best as we could.
Of course, he got his planes way up till they were just specks in the sky. :evil: For the rest of us mere humans, we spent a large part of the day walking up and down the slope retrieving models! :!:
So to answer your question Andy, there wasn’t an awful lot of flying. Eating and drinking seemed to be the most action of the day. I left around 4pm due to a malfunctioning transmitter. (It was a dry joint causing the problem. Which I’ve since repaired. ) So I don’t know if things improved after I left.
Tomorrow….. The winds, (on the forecasts that I’ve seen,) say slightly stronger winds for the morning, but we shall see.
We had nine pilots on the slope and a couple of new visitors, so not a bad turn out. Could just have done with a bit more wind.
The month of March is supposed to be famous for strong winds; Bring ‘em ON! :twisted:
Keith
Happy Days:
Good Morning Sleepy Heads :lol:
Shake off those hangovers, jump out of your beds and shout, “Happy St. Patrick’s Day!” :P
Yes folks it’s true, today is St Patrick’s day and what a day we’re looking forward to. :P
As you can see, the actual mountain is dozing under a blanket of cloud at the moment but the sun is rising and in a couple of hours those slopes should be clear and bathed in warm spring sunshine. All we’re gonna need,…..is some wind. :!: At time of writing,……..it’s dead calm. :( (poo) But ‘Hope springs eternal’ so with a bit of luck………….. :wink:
I’ll be up there about 10.00 See you all then.
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